Horse-collar fastener



(No Model.)

G. HIMES. HORSE COLLAR FASTENER.

No. 431,465. Patented July.1, 1-890.

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GEORGE B. HIMES, OF MANHATTAN, KANSAS.

HORSE-COLLAR FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,465, dated July 1, 1890. Application filed May 2, 1890. Serial No. 350,375. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. HIMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manhat tan, in the county of Riley and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Collar- Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to horse-collar fasteners, and among the objects in view are to provide an exceedingly cheap and durable fastener that may be operated with facility for securing together two opposite collar-sections.

With the above general objects in View the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a horse-collar the sections of which are secured in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan in detail of the fastener. Fig. 3 is a transverse section. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of the bolt and its strap-receiving loop. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the bolt-receiving hook. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the eyebolt.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the opposite collar-sections, provided with the usual crease 2, occurring between the rolls thereof.

The fastener consists of two opposite preferably cast-metal plates 3 and 4, tapered toward their outer ends and having their rear faces convened to conform to the creases 2.

Formed upon or secured to the outer surfaces of the plates 3 and 4: are keepers 5 and 6, respectively, said keepers being located some distance from the inner ends of the plates.

7 designates an eye-bolt preferably formed with a square shank 8 and passing through the plate 45 near its inner end and into the hollow section, within which it is nutted, the eye 9 of the bolt being in line with the keeper 0 and between said keeper and the end of the plate 4. Corresponding to the eyebolt 8 is a bolt 10, also formed with a square shank inserted through the plate 3 between its inner end and the keeper 5, the inner end of the shank being threaded and bolted in the same manner as the eyebolt 8. The outer end of the bolt 10 is provided with an open eye 11, the openingin the eye being reduced, as shown at 12, and the under portion of the eye being extended at a right angle to and above the shank to form a bearing-head 13.

14 represents the bolt, one end of which is tapered, as at 15, and said bolt is mounted for reciprocation in the keepers 5 and 6, the eye 7, and the locking-eye 11.

16 represents a U-shaped loop adapted to receive the holdback or pole strap of the harness, said 100p having its terminals connected rigidly with the bolt 14 and adapted to straddle or bridge the locking-eye 11 and the guide-eye 9. The terminals of the loop are slightly curved, as shown, and agree in thickness with the entrance 12 to the eye 11.

The operation of locking and unlocking the collar-sections in accordance with my invention is as follows: The collar is introduced over the animals neck and around his neck in the usual manner and the loop swung to the rear, so that the terminals of said loop will be in line with the opening 12 of the eye 11, after which the ends of the sections are brought together, the conical ends of the bolt 14 passing through the locking-eye 11 and taking into the keeper 5 of the opposite section. During the passage of the bolt through the eye 11 the terminal of the loop passes transversely through the opening 12 of the eye 11 and to the opposite side of said eye. It now simply remains to swing the loop down or to an opposite position to that which it originally occupied whereby, it will be prevented from withdrawal, in that said terminal of the loop is out of alignment with the opening 12. The pole or holdback strap is now connected to the loop in the usual manner. It will thus be seen that I have provided an exceedingly simple and easilyoperated locking device, which, after looking, is entirely out of the way of all hame-connecting and other harness-straps.

If desired, the several eyes and keepers may be cast integral with the sections 3 and 4, and said sections may be fastened to the collar-sections in any desirable way. In the present instance rivets 17 are inserted through openings in the locking-plate sections and into the collar-sections, which,in connection with the bolts 7 and 10, serve as an efficient means for connecting the fastening device to the collar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1'. In a collar-fastener, the combination, with opposite sections, each provided near its ends with keepers and one of said sections with an eye 11, having an entrance in its wall, of a bolt 14, loosely mounted in the keepers and provided with a locking-loop rigid with the bolt and adapted to be swung to one side, so that its terminals are in line with the entrance of the eye, substantially as specified.

2. In a horse-collar fastener, the combination, with opposite securing-plates provided at each side of their adjacent ends with keep er's, one of said sections being provided near its inner end with a bolt 10, provided with an eye having a narrow entrance and the opposite plate provided near its inner end with an eye, of a bolt 14, mounted and adapted to swing in the keeper and eye of the one plate and having a U-shaped loop depending from the bolt, the terminal of the loop being adapted to be swung into alignment with the entrance to the eye of the opposite plate and the bolt to pass through the locking-eye and take into the keeper of said plate, substantially as. specified.

3. The combination, with the opposite collar-sections, of the opposite securing-plates 3 and 4, secured within the creases of said sections, the plate 3 being provided with a 'keeper 5 and a square-shanked bolt 10, passing through the plate and secured within the collar and terminating at its outer end in a head 13 and a locking-eye 11, the latter provided with an entrance 12, and the opposite section being provided with an eyebolt 7, the square shank of which passes through the plate and is secured to the collar, and

with a keeper 6, the bolt 14, pivotally GEORGE E. HIMES.

Witnesses:

P. B. LEWIS, W. S. WHITFORD. 

